I'm trying to schedule an automatic defrag using scheduled tasks on all user machines. All user machines are windows xp. I am able to create a task using "c:\windows\system32\defrag.exe c: /f" command in a login script. It creates the task ok, but it doesn't run. I think it's a permissions thing, when you look at the task on a user machine, the Run As field is blank. Is there a way to make it run as the user or the administrator? The users are local admins (they have to be because of another program we use). Is this the best way to do this, is there a group policy that would be better? Any suggestions would be much appreciated. Thanks

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